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Tilling the Soil Fosters Gardening ProverbsIf you live with a gardener, you will no doubt recognize the truth and wisdom of the many gardening proverbs you read and hear. You may see yourself, your mother or your spouse between the lines of quaint proverbs about the oldest profession on earth. Gardening fosters its own unique view of life. Flower and vegetable gardeners are part of a down-to-earth breed of people who wear their dirt on their sleeve. Over the centuries the noble work of gardening has fostered proverbs ranging from the common "April showers bring May flowers," to lesser-known bits of gardening wisdom like this from M.P. Garafalo: "Callused palms and dirty fingernails precede a green thumb." Enjoy the proverbs below and keep them handy. You can use the proverbs to decorate stationery and cards for your gardening friends. When its time to give the gardener you love a gift, look for signposts, garden stepping stones and other garden accessories engraved with proverbial words of gardening wisdom. "All gardeners know better than other gardeners." –Chinese Gardening Proverb "Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job." –George Bernard Shaw "The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before." –Vita Sackville West "The home gardener is part scientist, part artist, part philosopher, part plowman. He modifies the climate around his home." -John R. Whiting "Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes it is a triumph of hope over experience." –Marina Schinz A garden is a friend you can visit anytime. "The best place to find God is in the garden. You can dig for him there." –George Bernard Shaw. "Gardening begins with daybreak and ends with back ache." "Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees." –Rudyard Kipling "Gardening requires lots of water—most of it in the form of perspiration." –Lou Erickson |